Monday, June 10, 2013

A New Book

My longtime friend Bob Emerson has written a delightful novel that has just been published, called "Back To The High Desert". A detail of a painting of mine that Bob owns was used for the cover.

The story centers on Roger Dane, a wealthy former oil titan who, at age 80, rebels against his well-meaning son's efforts to place him in assisted living. Roger embarks on a journey back to his childhood roots in Depression era eastern Oregon. Requesting a car and driver through a local employment agency, he is dismayed to discover that the driver is a young girl just graduated from high school. Their testy relationship gradually evolves into one of mutual respect as, through the old man's quest to re-trace his heritage, Julie discovers her own.

2 comments:

Sounds great - I'm getting to the age where anyone who rebels against assisted living gets a "well done" in my books! Your painting looks fab too Don. There is a Swedish novel out called "The one hundred year old man who climbed out of the window" (the window being situated on the ground floor of an old folks home - residential accommodation). So there's two books I need to get my hands on!

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I still feel like a beginner, even after a lifetime of painting. That’s the wonderful thing about art-making—each blank canvas offers the opportunity to rebuild your world anew. How many job descriptions offer that?

I grew up in rural northeast Oregon and started drawing and painting when very young. I’ve painted large murals all over the country, illustrated books, taught workshops and exhibited in galleries and museums. My art has traveled down two seemingly disparate but parallel paths: one more traditionally realist and the other more abstract. Sometimes they overlap.

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